Worship
on the Lord’s Day
November
16, 2008 9:30 am
Preaching:
Rev.
Dale Van Dyke, Senior Pastor, Harvest Church OPC,
OPENING HYMN:
Amid the Thronging
Worshipers
CALL
TO WORSHIP:
(from Psalm 99)
Leader:
The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim;
let the earth quake! The Lord is great in
People: Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His
holy mountain, for the Lord our God is holy!
SINGING GOD’S PRAISE:
Like a River Glorious
# 699
You are the Vine
Not What My Hands Have
Done # 461
CORPORATE CONFESSION OF
SIN AND PLEA FOR PARDON:
(Silence for private confession of sins)
ASSURANCE OF PARDON:
(from Jonah 4)
Leader: Beloved of God, this is our assurance and confidence:
People: Indeed the Lord, our God, is a gracious and
compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness, and One who relents from calamity and grants forgiveness through
the blood of His Son.
READING FROM
THE LAW OF GOD:
(from Exodus 20)
Leader: And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your
God, who brought you out of the
People: You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved
image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the
earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Leader: You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the
Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the
children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but
showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my
commandments.
People: You shall not take the name of the Lord your
God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in
vain.
Leader: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you
shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord
your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter,
your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner
who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the
sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord
blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
People: Honor your father and your mother,
that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving
you.
Leader: You shall not
murder.
People: You shall not commit adultery.
Leader: You shall not steal.
People: You shall not bear false witness against your
neighbor.
All: You shall not covet your neighbor’s house;
you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female
servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
Scripture
Hebrews 3:7 – 4:13
The
Preaching of God’s Word:
“Entering God’s Rest”
HYMN OF RESPONSE:
My Hope is Built on Nothing Less # 521
The
Lord’s Day Evening
November
16, 2008 6:00 pm
Preaching:
Rev.
Dale Van Dyke, Senior Pastor, Harvest Church OPC,
Opening
Hymn of Praise:
Lord, with Glowing Heart
I’d Praise Thee # 80 (vs. 1,3,4)
Confessing
our Faith:
The
Q105: What is God’s will for you in the Sixth
Commandment, which is “You shall not murder?”
A105: I am not to belittle,
insult, hate, or kill my neighbor—not by my thoughts, my words, my look or
gesture, and certainly not by actual deeds—and I am not to be party to this in
others; rather, I am to put away all desire for revenge.
I am not to harm or recklessly
endanger myself either. Prevention of
murder is also why government is armed with the sword.
Q106: Does this commandment refer only to killing?
A106: By forbidding murder, God teaches us that he
hates the root of murder: envy,
hatred, anger, vindictiveness. In God’s
sight all such are murder.
Q107: Is it
enough then that we do not kill our neighbor in any such way?
A107: No. By condemning envy, hatred, and anger, God
tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves, to be patient, peace-loving, gentle, merciful, and
friendly to them, to protect them from harm as much as we can, and to do good
even to our enemies.
Singing
Praise to God:
Praise the Savior Now
and Ever # 243
Thy Works, Not Mine, O
Christ # 524
Scripture
Galatians 1:6-9; 2:15-21
God’s
Word Preached:
“Getting the Gospel
Straight”
Responding
to God’s Word in Song:
In Christ Alone
In Christ
alone my hope is found
He is my
light my strength my song
This
Cornerstone this solid ground
Firm through
the fiercest drought and storm
What heights
of love what depths of peace
When fears
are stilled when strivings cease
My Comforter
my all in all
Here in the
love of Christ I stand
In Christ
alone who took on flesh
Fullness of
God in helpless Babe
This gift of
love and righteousness
Scorned by
the ones He came to save
'Til on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of
God was satisfied
For every
sin on Him was laid
Here in the
death of Christ I live
There in the
ground His body lay
Light of the
world by darkness slain
Then
bursting forth in glorious day
Up from the
grave He rose again
And as He
stands in victory
Sin's curse
has lost its grip on me
For I am His
and He is mine
Bought with
the precious blood of Christ
No guilt in
life no fear in death
This is the
power of Christ in me
From life's
first cry to final breath
Jesus commands
my destiny
No power of
hell no scheme of man
Can ever
pluck me from His hand
'Til He returns or calls me home
Here in the
power of Christ I'll stand
No power of
hell no scheme of man
Can ever
pluck me from His hand
'Til He returns or calls me home
Here in the
power of Christ I'll stand